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Potential Use of Telephone-Based Survey for Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance in Sri Lanka H Herath et al. BMC Public Health (2017) 17:984 DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4993-1 RESEARCHARTICLE Open Access Potential use of telephone-based survey for non-communicable disease surveillance in Sri Lanka H. M. M. Herath1*, N. P. Weerasinghe2, T. P. Weerarathna1, A. Hemantha3 and A. Amarathunga3 Abstract Background: Telephone survey (TS) has been a popular tool for conducting health surveys, particularly in developed countries. However, the feasibility, and reliability of TS are not adequately explored in Sri Lanka. The main aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of telephone-based survey in estimating the prevalence of common non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Sri Lanka. Methods: We carried out an observational cross-sectional study using telephone interview method in Galle district, Sri Lanka. The study participants were selected randomly from the residents living in the households with fixed land telephone lines. The prevalence of the main NCDs was estimated using descriptive statistics. Results: Overall, 975 telephone numbers belonging to six main areas of Galle district were called, and 48% agreed to participate in the study. Of the non-respondents, 22% actively declined to participate. Data on NCDs were gathered from 1470 individuals. The most common self-reported NCD was hypertension (17.%), followed by diabetes (16.3%) and dyslipidaemia (15.6%). Smoking was exclusively seen in males (7.4%), and regular alcohol use was significantly more common in males (19.2%) than females (0.4%, P <.001). Conclusions: Our study revealed average response rate for telephone based interview in Sri Lankan setting. Overall prevalence of main NCDs in this study showed a comparable prevalence to studies used face to face interview method. This study supports the potential use oftelephone-basedsurveytoassessheathrelatedinformationinSriLanka. Keywords: Telephone survey, Prevalence, NCDs, Diabetes, Dyslipidaemia Background Among low and middle income countries, South Asia Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a group of illness is one of the worst affected region with NCDs in the that are not due to infectious process and hence are not world [5]. The prevalence and the adverse health out- transmittable from a patient to a healthy person [1]. NCDs comes of NCDs have risen more rapidly in South Asia account for most of the deaths worldwide, killing more people than in any other geographical region in the world [6]. each year than all other causes combined [2]. Among NCDs, Even though, demographic dimension of Sri Lanka is cardiovascular diseases account for most deaths, or 17.5 mil- different to the rest of the South Asian countries, factors lion people annually, followed by cancers (8.2 million), which influence the burden of NCDs are more or less respiratory diseases (4 million), and diabetes (1.5 million) [3]. similar [7, 8]. Like the rest of the other nations, there is Contrary to the popular opinion, people living in low and ongoing rapid urbanization, which has led to unhealthy middle-income countries are disproportionately affected by eating habits, physical inactivity, high rates of smoking NCDs and it is estimated that two of every three deaths due and tobacco use in Sri Lanka [7–9]. Urban population to NCDs occur in these countries [4]. enjoys comparatively better income, but, has more west- ernized lifestyle with physical inactivity and unhealthy eat- ing habits [10]. People in rural area are mainly involving * Correspondence: [email protected] 1Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, in agriculture and related occupations and have more University Unit, Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya, P.O. Box 70, Galle, Sri Lanka physically active lifestyle and healthier eating pattern. Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Herath et al. BMC Public Health (2017) 17:984 Page 2 of 10 Problems associated with NCDs can be reduced by early respondent’s attitudes and their knowledge. Even with diagnosis and proper management [3]. Therefore, disease- these limitations, telephone surveys may still have the surveillance system remains an integral part of the battle potential to be used as a screening method for NCDs par- against growing menace of NCDs [11]. Such system will ticularly in resource poor settings. provide the vital information on the magnitude of the prob- There were no previous studies done in Sri Lanka to lem and it will in turn help to implement necessary pre- assess the feasibility and reliability of telephone surveys. ventive strategies [11]. Furthermore, regular surveillance Therefore, the present study was designed with main system would provide useful information on disease pattern aims of identifying the feasibility and potential chal- which can be used to educate the general public and polit- lenges of applying telephone surveys for NCDs screen- ical leadership. Unfortunately, disease-surveillance system ing. In addition, the prevalence of self-reported common remains inadequate particularly in resource-scarce coun- NCDs (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, ischemic heart tries like Sri Lanka [12]. disease etc) was assessed based on telephone interview Periodic surveillance of NCDs was initiated by Ministry method in this study. of Health, Sri Lanka with the help of World Health organization (WHO) [13]. However, these surveillances Methods are primarily face-to-face household interviews, and they Sampling procedures are both costly and time-consuming [13–15]. Alterna- This study was carried out in Galle district, which is the tively, surveillance using telephone interviews has become most populated district in Southern province of Sri increasingly used in health surveys, particularly in the Lanka. It has a population of 1.06 million, dispersed over developed countries for screening and monitoring of an area of 1652 km2 and has 32,234 households with NCDs (e.g. the CDC Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance fixed landline telephones in 2015. This study was a System in the US and the Telephone-based Surveillance of community based cross sectional descriptive study and Risk and Protective Factors for Chronic Diseases in Brazil the study population consisted of all residents living in [14, 16]. Compared to face-to-face household interviews, households with fixed land telephone line (Sri Lanka telephone surveys are cheap, faster and required less man Telecom telephones). The list of telephone numbers power to conduct. Furthermore, telephone surveys can be with the household details was obtained from the Sri performed more frequently and hence disease trends can Lanka Telecom company. It is the main telecommunica- be identified early. In addition, telephone surveys give tions provider in Sri Lanka and is the only company pro- more freedom to access the respondents, regardless of where viding fixed landline telephones in Sri Lanka. Inclusion they live and what they do [15]. Compared to Face-to-face criteria for the study were all residents of 20 years or interviews, telephone surveys are less intrusive, warrant more living in households with fixed Sri Lanka Telecom greater anonymity and are more convenient for the respon- landline. Exclusion criteria were the member of the dents [15]. It is also an appealing alternative to surveillance household spending majority of their time residing out- involving face-to-face interviews, especially when the access side Galle district. to certain geographical areas is physically challenging. Even though, telephone surveys tend to be one of the Sample size most cost-effective ways of surveillance of NCDs, the The required sample size was 1100 as determined using main limiting factor is selection bias based on the avail- the equation n = Z 2 × p(1-p)Deff/(e 2 × RR) from the ability of telephone lines. In Sri Lanka, around 10% of sample size calculator [18] provided by the World households (2.6 million) have fixed landlines, where as in Health Organization (WHO) STEP wise approach to Galle district, around 12.5% of households own fixed land- NCDs risk factor surveillance (STEPS). We used level of lines in 2015. confidence (Z) of 1.96 for a 95% CI, a margin of error It is a known fact, that people, who own land telephone (e) of 0.05, an estimated prevalence of main NCDs (p)of connections, are comparatively rich and enjoy better qual- 0.5, a design effect (Deff) of 1.5, and an expected ity of life than those without telephone connection. There- response rate (RR) of 0.5. A total of 1100 subjects were fore, it is likely that socially deprived people will be left randomly selected from the list provided by the Sri out from the survey if telephone interviews are used as Lanka Telecom from the main regions of Galle district the only method of surveillance. In addition, there is sig- (Galle, Badegama, Hikaduwa, Ambalangoda, Udugame, nificant proportion of individuals in the community with Hiniduma, and Habaraduwa) using probability propor- undiagnosed NCDs (e.g. diabetes, hypertension) [1, 17]. tional to size (PPS) sampling method. We estimated that All these individuals with undiagnosed NCDs will be left the number of household required for this study was out if telephone surveys are used. Apart from the availabil- 975, assuming around 3 adult individuals live in a house- ity of telephone lines, quality of the survey also depends hold and 50% of household would respond positively to on many other factors such as individuals’ response rate, participate this study [19].
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